Music: What are you listening to today?
In the spirit of the books and movies threads, here's one to talk about what you're listening to lately and what you have discovered. Tell us if you like it, what it reminds you of, anything you like, short or not, simple or not.
Like the books thread, I'd ask that we keep it mostly to stuff we are listening to or going to listen to soon, or have just finished listening to (that is, like a log more than a resume).
Below is my first entry.
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Bonnie Raitt, by Bonnie Raitt.
My understanding is that this was her first record, which she made when she was 21. Nine out of the eleven songs are covers; the two she wrote are "Thank You" and "Finest Loving Man," and both are good.
I really liked this album. Bonnie's voice is much sweeter here than I've heard her before, and very warm, traveling between notes more fluently, and not yet as raspy sounding as it became. (Which I also like in its own way.) Despite the sweetness of her voice she manages to put some heart into the bluesy material, and sings with what sounds like a real love for the lyrics. It's great to hear someone who doesn't just walk through lyrics. She sounds like she really thought and felt her way through the songs. Many of the most gifted and popular singers out there don't, winding up leaving a lot of a song's power still on the table, so to speak.*
From an Amazon.com review:
Bonnie wrote two of the songs here (Thank you, Finest loving man) but relied mainly on covers, beginning with a cover of Bluebird (written by Stephen Stills, famous as a member first of Buffalo Springfield then of Crosby Stills and Nash). One of Bonnie's major influences, Sippie Wallace, is represented by two songs (Mighty tight woman, Women be wise) while Bonnie also covers Any day woman (Paul Siebel), Walking blues (Robert Johnson) and Since I fell for you (Bud Johnson) among others.
I really enjoyed Walking Blues a lot and wanted to hear it immediately again, but decided to let the rest of the album play out instead of interrupting its flow. The album is good enough that I think I'm going to listen to it again.
By the way, it's in the Rhapsody's catalogue, if you have that service. It's also at Amazon, and the MP3 256kbps download is on sale there for $2.99. You can listen to samples there too.
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*This reminds me of a biography of John Denver that I saw on PBS the other day. I'm not a big Denver fan, but the biography was so good that this is the second time I felt compelled to watch it. Anyway, in it his manager said that at a particular concert Denver sounded exceptionally good, and it seemed like the audience noticed it. His manager recalls saying something like, "Your voice was incredible today. How did you do it?" Denver replied that he was trying to do what he learned from Placido Domingo when they worked together. He said he was amazed by how deep Domingo's art was; he didn't just sing a line, but put the right emotion into it word by word. If he was going to sing about a piece of steel, his voice would sound like steel. Every line was emotionally full, clear, and precise.
I got a bit of a feeling of that in this Raitt album. Raitt very much inhabited those songs when she sang. Unlike some spoiled divas, the newly emergent Raitt got across the feeling that she was glad to be there.
I feel this thread has gone a bit downhill since my last post.
So I'll try to bring it back up with this inspirational girl-power song that serves as a reminder that you don't have to be book-smart, excel at school or speak good English to have worth.
never heard of this band before and pretty sure never heard this song before either, which is surprising because it's such a banger, just came on randomly in the background while working
just went through the rest of their songs, not impressed, sad because this one really gripped me, even worse is that i actually discovered I've heard them before and it's a song i can't stand - was embedded into the menu of some video game i played in my yut and remember all the disgust it brought to my ears each time i had to hear this song each time i cycled through the menu
that diarrhea song made my day lol, thanks for sharing.
You're perfect. Yes, it's true! But without me, you're only you.
the Horror, here's that show I told you about
Only a test!
lol Zeno Goat
wtfe. Prong Goat
lol they're fine
Just finished watching this for the first time in a couple of years
RIP
https://youtu.be/9wi4n5TTnFc?si=KcquR5Xe...
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I really hate Megadeth, but Spotify always autoplays this for me and I have to admit, it's incredible.
I don't get why this guy isn't a bigger star. Maybe he is in Britain.
https://youtu.be/pR-MTZVppkA?si=W4xYmGuh...
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I'm sure I must've posted this before, but new information has come to light that, imo, warrants a re-post.
It has recently come to my attention that Idols inspiration for the title of this song came from when he was hanging out with The Rolling Stones.
They were drinking whiskey, specifically "Rebel Yell" which evidently was one of Keith Richards favourites, and Billy found the name of the whiskey so fascinating that he asked the Stones if they would mind if he made a song called "Rebel Yell".
I'm not sure why he felt the need to ask their permission - it was not their whiskey (well, that particular bottle probably was), but anyway, they said "go ahead" and Billy went ahead.
With this information, I obviously went immediately to google and found that not only was Rebel Yell still around, but it was available at a shop pretty close to me.
Since Idol hung out with the Stones, it's changed its name to 'Rebel' (fire whoever decided that obv), though the glass bottle still has 'Rebel Yell' embossed on it.
Anyway, picked up a bottle and it's... fine. It's not amazing, but it has a very endearing quality in that it's quite cheap.
And obviously its extremely important place in music history makes it worthwhile either way.
